Hotel Happenings

Park Inn Heathrow launches late night entertainment venue

The new Park Inn Heathrow Conference Centre has launched the first airport business venue with nightlife. Bravo! Bravo! is the centrepiece of the new design-driven venue. Using different floor levels, screens, lighting effects, and colour and furniture-themed areas, the huge space is subtly transformed into smaller, sociable areas, for changing moods and needs throughout the day. 

myhotels are offering some May Bank Holidays accommodation offers in both their hotels. May Bank Holiday rates at myhotel bloomsbury start from £129 per room per night and at myhotel Chelsea rates start at £149 per room per night. Both include a continental breakfast. For further information contact Ben Groom on +44 (0) 20 7436 1111 .

Visitors to the Welsh capital, Cardiff can take advantage of a rate of £32 per night at the new Etap Cardiff Centre Hotel. The 157 rooms each feature a double bed, overhead single bunk, en-suite shower, separate toilet and a television. Food is available 24 hours a day and a breakfast buffet offers as much continental breakfast as you can eat for £2.95. For reservations tel: 029 2045 8131.

Forty miles west, in Swansea, a new stylish hotel has opened. Village Swansea  has 115 bedrooms, a leisure club with 25 metre pool, whirlpool spa and sauna and a pub, café and restaurant. Rooms cost from £99, for reservations tel: 0870 606 3606. 

A 16th century coaching inn has been redeveloped to create The Pennington,  a 19 bedroom hotel in the village of Ravenglass, where the Lake District National Park meets the sea on the north-west coast of England. Owned by the Pennington family who have lived nearby at Muncaster Castle for nearly 800 years, The Pennington’s brasserie and café will offer meat from local farms and fruit and vegetables from the Muncaster estate.   Rooms from £120, tel: 01229 717222. 

A new boutique property, Hotel 55, has opened in the suburb of Ealing in West London. With 25 luxurious bedrooms, lounge bar, conservatory, restaurant and landscaped garden, the hotel offers an alternative to the hectic city centre and is two minutes’ walk from an Underground station which can take guests to the West End in 20 minutes. Rooms cost from £75 including continental breakfast, tel: 020 8991 4451. 

Radisson Edwardian’s “Let Loose in London” leisure program makes it easy to enjoy London, with great rates and discount coupons.  The “Let Loose” rate includes full English breakfast and VAT (tax of 17.5%).  There are no hidden extras, making it even more affordable.

Weekend rates at the four-star Vanderbilt from now to July 19, 2007 start at $238 (£119).  From July 20 to September 9, 2007, weekend rates drop to $218 (£109).  These “Let Loose in London” rates include discounts for London’s many cultural events, museums, sightseeing, retail, afternoon tea, fine wine and more.  Guests can choose from nine four-and five-star hotels in central London, plus a five-star at Heathrow.

Rates are valid for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, based on double occupancy in a standard room, and include full English breakfast for two and taxes of 17.5%.  Rates vary according to season, and are subject to terms and conditions. 

Radisson Edwardian Hotels is one of the UK’s largest, privately owned, upscale hotel groups, with more than 2,500 guest rooms and 95 meeting rooms.  Included in the London group are the Radisson Edwardian at Heathrow, The Hampshire & The Pastoria (Leicester Square), The Marlborough & The Kenilworth (Bloomsbury), The Berkshire & The Sussex (Oxford Street), The Mountbatten (Covent Garden), The Grafton (Tottenham Court Road) and The Vanderbilt (Kensington).